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World of Warcraft: Born to Rot

IGN PC has begun a new set of articles that explore the four Horde races in World of Warcraft, with the first installment detailing the Undead. It’s called “Born to Rot”, with a snippet to follow: At the end of…

Camelot Patch Notes

Straight from the Camelot Herald: =================================== Dark Age of Camelot Test Version 1.70f Release Notes April 26, 2004 =================================== NEW THINGS AND BUG FIXES – The Convoker Master Level ability, Summon Warcrystal, now has a 30 second recast timer. –…

World of Warcraft Preview

Beta Phase 1 & 2 Impressions A brand new season is upon the World of Warcraft beta and it’s full of surprising changes, inevitably some of them controversial. With the recent push named “phase 2” ushered in last week, it’s…

Vampire: Bloodlines Weekly Update #9

Activision’s Shane DeFreest has sent us another weekly update for Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines via email, with Troika’s Leonard Boyarsky once again answering the questions this week. Straight from my inbox: 1) Will Bloodlines support the three standard types…

Champions of Norrath Sequel Announced

Sony and Snowblind have officially announced a sequel to this year’s Playstation 2 action RPG, Champions of Norrath. It is entitled Champions: Return to Arms and is slated for a 2005 release date. Here’s a list of features from the…

GB Feature: World of Warcraft Preview

We’ve put together a six-page preview of Blizzard’s World of Warcraft, based upon the last several weeks of beta testing. Here’s a snip to get you started: So what is a typical quest like in WoW? I would guess that…

The Fall Interview

GameSpy has conducted an interview with Silver Style’s Carsten Strehse, asking the lead designer four pages of questions concerning their upcoming post-apocalyptic RPG, The Fall: Last Days of Gaia. A taste: Q: What kind of RPG system are you using?…

Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance II Review

Game Chronicles Magazine has posted a review of Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance II, giving the action RPG an overall score of 8.5 Their conclusion to follow: While not a huge RPG fan myself, I was surprised to find an enjoyable…

Lineage II: The Chaotic Chronicle Preview

If you haven’t yet experienced the ass-numbing addiction of the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game genre, it’s a good time to start shopping around for one. After a couple of years of learning what players want, expect, and will…

Knights of the Old Republic Sequel Confirmed

Several scans from Electronic Gaming Monthly have surfaced on the ‘net that definitely confirm that a sequel to Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (entitled The Sith Lords) is in development by Obsidian Entertainment. According to the scans, Obsidian’s…